A practical design for a one-workstation biomedical literature explorer: ingest the right NCBI datasets, preserve IDs and licenses, measure lexical and semantic retrieval separately, and make every generated answer open back to its evidence.
Tag: local search
How to Archive Years of ChatGPT Conversations Without One Giant Context Window
A practical two-layer design for preserving old conversations, maintaining reviewed current state, and tracing every fact back to its source.
How to Search Confidential PDFs Locally on a 12 GB Laptop—Without Overbuilding RAG
A practical, privacy-first path from searchable PDFs to local retrieval: extract text, measure full-text search, add OCR or embeddings only when the evidence says you need them, and keep every result tied to its source.